Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.
I don't digest things with my mind.
I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.
I don't think any extremism is rational.
I create by feeling rather than by intellectualizing.
At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a silver bowl.
I don't think," he insisted. "I feel.
I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
